Magnificent furry
orange? A lifetime will stop with its fantasy of Love

Courts. Two red-haired
women in an oak tree calling and calling him

Puss. Recollection of
opening the complicated latch to aid the drunken

Poe’s return home. Return
home to the red bowl. Drink. The greater

Their love for him the
bigger more perfectly proportionate their world. (Kate Van Dusen, “The Red Bowl”)

The
range of the material in the issue, hefty at some sixty-four 8 ½ x 11 pages, is
impressive, and occasionally runs a bit roughshod in terms of consistency of
quality, but is rich in vibrant energy. The strength of the journal, in many
ways, comes from the feeling that the reader is invited into the process of the
writing workshop, able to witness a group of writers attempting, listening and
learning. Writing is a conversation, after all. There is more worth reading
here than in many Canadian literary trade journals, and far more examples of
writers who are trying out new shapes and forms, pushing the art to see just
what might emerge.

vocal
apparatus contracted and distended

I

letting go

dog bolts

home?

ambiguity of

destination

what makes

cocktails

wag

II

magnified fury

short changed

fried circuit

head

hiccough

two shakes

of a dead dog’s

tail

III

echoes from

monosyllabic sting
beasts

copulas erupt

booking it

fumigated hive

where a voice

incensed at its absence

roars jurasically (Nick
Edwards)

Inserted
into this issue is a little flyer, also, that reads:

If you’d like to
support this and subsequent issues of COUGH, please send your contribution to
COUGH, c/o M. Boughn, 11 Conrad Ave. Toronto ON M6G 3G4

COUGH #4 will be an
issue of collaborative works edited by Jonathan Pappo -- #5 will be devoted to
the Poetics of Music edited by Zach Buck -- #6 will be edited by Laine Bourassa
& Tyler Crick concerning writing from the Left Coast.